What do you mean I can burn my food?

Don't worry! Although there is a chance to ruin your food (which makes it inedible), there is also a chance of a critical success. As stated above, the cooking proficiency ability lowers the chance of burning our food, and the cooking mastery ability raises the chance of getting a success result above normal.
The table below shows the types of successes you can get while cooking food.

Result Type

Stat boost

Stats Example using Bara Brith

Burnt

Fail

None

None

Normal

Success

Normal

+ 96 Dmg, +80 HP regen per tick

Exquisite

Critical Success

1.5 x Normal

+ 144 Dmg, +120 HP regen per tick

Perfected

Rare Success

2.0 x Normal

+192 Dmg, +160 HP regen per tick

Where do I start cooking?

Cooking takes place in the tavern. There are ovens in the kitchen that you will cook at.

Start at Gideon Ramsford. He is the cooking quest giver. He will get you started cooking, and he will send you in search of cooking ingredients.

Cooking Ingredients?

You need to gather ingredients to cook food. What ingredients you need depend on the recipe that you're cooking. The recipes come from cooking quests, buying from a vendor, and Cooking Bosses. This is a list of all the ingredients that you need to go from level 1-100.

Where do I get these ingredients?

Oats, barley, wheat, and lentils are free. You can find them in the fields by Highshore Village.

There are other supplemental ingredients you can buy from vendors.

Grocer Ian Cresse

Price

Farm Goods Erin Wyse

Price

Import Goods Kiandra Morven

Price

Onion

4

Butter

7

Ginger

12

Peas

9

Cheese

11

Sugar

15

Leek

10

Cream

21

Raisins

18

Carrot

12

Milk

23

Honey

20

King Bolete

26

Eggs

25

Dried Fruit

30

Spinach Leaf

20

Are there any other vendors?

Delia Dermont - Recipe Trader

Recipes

Level

Price

Rabbit Pie Recipe Book

1

25

Lamb Casserole Recipe

20

25

Roast Beef Recipe Book

30

50

Cheese Rarebit Recipe Book

40

50

Venison Stew Recipe Book

50

75

Cream of Pea Soup Recipe Soup

60

75

Black Pudding Recipe Book

70

100

Boar Roast Recipe Book

80

100

Cream of Carrot Soup Recipe Book

90

250

Spinach Pancake Recipe Book

100

250

Rare Fruit Salad Recipe Book

110

500

Granola Recipe Book

120

500

Warbeast Omelette Recipe Book

130

1000

Sweet Roll Recipe Book

140

1000

Wyvern Egg Souffle Recipe Book

150

2500

Bara Brith Recipe Book

160

2500

What are special ingredients (extracts)?

When you are cooking, there is a check box where you can add in a special ingredient called an Extract. This is to prevent your food from burning.

When your food burns, you receive no experience or ability points from cooking it, and you cannot eat it.

You buy special ingredients from the recipe trader Delia Dermont at the tavern bar

Your recipes start out needed Garnet Extract, and as you get more difficult recipes the type of extract you need will increase. See your recipe for its requirements.

Extracts DOUBLE the chance of creating exquisite food.

Special
Ingredient

Price

Garnet Extract

10

Emerald Extract

20

Sapphire Extract

40

Ruby Extract

80

Crystal Extract

160

Are there any other cooking quests?

Daily Cooking Quest - Ashley Marriott (in kitchen)

You complete this quest by handing in exquisite food that is level appropriate.

You get xp and a cooking cache for completing it.

There is a rare chance at getting a cooking fashion token.

Repeatable Cooking Quest - James Fallow (Tavern Bar)

You complete this by handing in stacks of 5 regular food items.

This food is from the recipes in the quest chain.

You can repeat this as many times as you want, as often as you want.

This is a good way to level up. You get 10 times the amount of xp as if you cooked one.

Cooking Bosses?

There are bosses in Gelebron's tower that drop rare recipes (very rarely) and rare ingredients. The bosses respawn in 15 to 30 minutes. These recipes include:

Cooking Fashion?

A rare reward from the daily quest is a Token of Dagdha. You turn these in to Desmond Kilpatrick just inside the tavern entrance to obtain cooking fashion. The more rare fashion requires more rare tokens.